![]() ![]() ![]() They are also employed to hold maturing beverages such as wine, cognac, armagnac, sherry, port, whiskey, beer, arrack, and sake. Someone who makes barrels is called a "barrel maker" or cooper (coopers also make buckets, vats, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, kegs, kilderkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins, troughs and breakers).īarrels have a variety of uses, including storage of liquids such as water, oil, and alcohol. Modern barrels and casks can also be made of aluminum, stainless steel, and different types of plastic, such as HDPE. ![]() " Burgundy type" 228 litres (60 US gal 50 imp gal) and.Modern wooden barrels for wine-making are made of French common oak ( Quercus robur), white oak ( Quercus petraea), American white oak ( Quercus alba), more exotic is Mizunara Oak all typically have standard sizes: Recently Oregon Oak ( Quercus Garryana) has been used. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, usually alcoholic beverages a small barrel or cask is known as a keg. They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. Traditional oak barrels made by Chilean cooperage Tonelería Nacional Modern stainless steel casks and kegs outside the Castle Rock microbrewery in Nottingham, England Wooden wine barrel at an exhibition in CroatiaĪ barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. For other uses, see Cask (disambiguation). ![]()
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